Hi there! Hope you had a great weekend! It's time for an all new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! For this week's challenge, Anna-Karin suggested a challenge where we make our own flowers. May got to thinking and came up with the idea that we make some project element from scratch. Something oh so very homemade? It could be an embellishment with layers, a rosette, a flower or perhaps you build something or other wise craft a piece by starting with little more than simple paper or other raw materials. What will you make from scratch?

I was inspired to create a homemade flower to embellish a tag (or three ;):

I enjoy making my own die cut flowers especially roses made using the Tattered Pinecone die as well as a homemade heart:

I was having so much fun, I couldn't stop there and created two more tags embellishing with a homemade heart and PEDIMENTS embellishment:

For added interest and design, I applied crackle paint along with TEA DYE ink to the die cut pediments, hearts:

and butterfly embellishment:

Each tag features a different stamped sentiment from the SIMPLE SAYINGS stamp set:

These are some of my favorites of your creations...even though I've said that before. :) I adore the color palette on the first tag (since I'm a teal-a-holic) and I also really loved seeing the second tag in a totally different color scheme. Both are breathtaking and so very brilliantly Mona!

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Mona Pendleton

Hi there! Welcome to my creative space where I share my latest creations. Here are a few tid bits about me ~ I am married to my best friend, Scott and between the two of us we have 4 children ~ 2 grown young adults and 2 teenagers. I work as a Registered Nurse in the Operating Room. I'm so grateful and blessed to have the amazing opportunity to design for a couple of fabulous companies. I enjoy creating with stamps, dies, paint, ink, markers and anything else that allows me to be creative.

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